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On KCat post I just saw some of you talking about BB and BBB nibs.

 

I am really interested.

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Aurora has a BB. Stipula used to have a 1.3 italic, and Stipula's 1.1 italic is wider than Aurora's BB.

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On KCat post I just saw some of you talking about BB and BBB nibs.

Pelikan does, too. My everyday pen is an M800 BB italic. But other makers have nibs just as broad, if not more so, and still call them Medium or Broad. A better measurement is the actual line width.

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Good question. What follows is my best guess. - The Japanese "big three" (Platinum, Namiki and Sailor) plus Nakaya and Danitrio Hakasa all offer BB nibs, or so I thought. Those BB nibs write somewhere between a Western B and BB. I have several and I really like them. I do not know if Japanese manufacturers have 3B nibs available for special order.

 

Pelikan has both BB and 3B nibs in the Souverain series. I thought Montblanc had BB nibs regularly available and 3B as special order options in the Meisterstueck series.

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There's at least one vendor on eBay selling BB points for Sonnets. He's got some obliques as well.

 

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Omas has BB (no 3B IIRC) nibs. For a short time, I had a BB Paragon (old style) that was really, really nice- ball tip, but it had some nice line variation. The nicest thing about it IMHO is the ebonite feed- the resulting writing had a lot more character and shading than the only other BB nib I have, a Lamy 80. I love the 80- glassiest nib I've used, ever- but it is more of a paintbrush, everything is so *even*, it kind of looks boring. :P

WTB: Lamy 27 w/ OB/OBB nibs; Pelikan 100 B nib

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I have a Pelikan M620 Piazza Navona with a BB nib

 

But the nib's profile looks like a stub, and writes like one too :thumbup:

 

 

 

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I have a great BB nibed Lamy 2000.

Oberon

 

Where did you get it?

 

 

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Most places don't carry anything but EF, F, M, B Lamy 2000s- some places will special order them, but it would probably be faster to just buy one and send the pen in to Lamy Service for a nib swap. Bob Nurin at Lamy USA stocks:

XF

F

M

B

MK

OM

OB

OBB

BB

WTB: Lamy 27 w/ OB/OBB nibs; Pelikan 100 B nib

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Most places don't carry anything but EF, F, M, B Lamy 2000s- some places will special order them, but it would probably be faster to just buy one and send the pen in to Lamy Service for a nib swap. Bob Nurin at Lamy USA stocks:

XF

F

M

B

MK

OM

OB

OBB

BB

 

I saw in Lamy web page that this option is only available to Lamy 2000. I wish there was a way for me to get an extra BB or even BBB for my Safaris, Vistas and Studios.

Can you tell I am a Lamy fan :)

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Noooooooooooooo! I hunted ages to find my 2!

 

Nib killer!!! :angry:

 

Guilty as charged! But now it's a nice fine cursive italic; and I can send people mail without them asking me if the doctors have forbidden me to have sharp objects. :ltcapd:

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I saw in Lamy web page that this option is only available to Lamy 2000. I wish there was a way for me to get an extra BB or even BBB for my Safaris, Vistas and Studios.

Can you tell I am a Lamy fan :)

 

You could always take a $100 nib in a $20 pen to the next level and send a $10 steel nib into Greg or John to be retipped. :)

 

Aaron

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I bought a Pelikan 800 on Ebay and it came with a BB nib. I gave it an honest try but really don't like a broad round point nib. I don't mind writting wide with a stub or italic but really don't like the way the BB writes. I ended up replacing it with a fine nib which I really enjoy using. I would like to trade the BB for a xf or maybe I'll have it ground to an italic.

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